Heroes of the Invincible Knight

In the garden, a well-dressed middle-aged man was walking quickly to the meeting room of Hunter's house.

The man's name is Iger, and he is the housekeeper of the Hunter family.

Iger was adopted by the Hunter family since he was a child, and he has been working for the Hunter family since the time of Grandpa Richard, and his honor and disgrace have long been tied to the Hunter family.

Before Richard was born, the internal affairs of the territory were mainly handled by Egger assisting Viscount Salter. He could be regarded as the only one among the hunter family's big bosses who had some internal affairs ability, and he had always acted as the chief steward of the Hunter family.

Even after Richard took charge of the territory, Iger was still allowed to be the butler. It's just that the power is not as concentrated in the hands as before, and Iger has no complaints. After all, it is his life's mission to be loyal to the Hunter family.

When they came to the entrance of the meeting hall, two guards at the entrance saluted Iger.

"Master Li Cha is inside."

"Um"

Iger nodded slightly to the two guards as a response.

After entering the door, he saw Li Cha sitting on a chair.

"Master Richard, good day"

While speaking, Iger made a standard bow to Richard.

"Uncle Iger, don't be too polite."

"Master, courtesy cannot be discarded."

Li Cha could only greet Iger to sit down with a helpless expression.

Sometimes people are hypocritical.

Although Li Cha told Iger not to be too polite, if Iger really dared to put up the old minister's score in front of Li Cha, it would definitely arouse Li Cha's disgust.

Fortunately, Iger is very observant of his duties as a minister and has never overstepped. More importantly, they are loyal and have certain management skills.

Although these management skills are very basic in Li Cha's view, and they are also empirical management, but he is an internal affairs talent, and he quickly comprehends Li Cha's new management methods. In the position of housekeeper.

"Uncle Iger, how much food do we have now?"

"There are still more than 7,000 stone rye and more than 3,000 stone green rice in the warehouse, and there is also some stock of dried meat."

The staple foods of this world are rye and green rice.

"Furthermore, the young master has lowered the land tax to attract farmers in recent years. Almost all the farmers in our territory have food reserves. If there is a shortage of food, they can collect a few thousand shi of food."

Although the Northland is said to be a bitterly cold place, it actually has fertile black land. There are also the Daling River and the Xiaoling River originating from the Daxue Mountain in the far north, passing through the entire ironwood forest and flowing through Hunter Territory. Formed a large accumulation plain.

One mu of land can yield a stone and a half in one year.

In the past few years, Richard has attracted a large number of refugees and escaped farmers from other territories by reducing agricultural taxes, encouraging land reclamation, and promoting water conservancy.

The land tax prevailing in the Kingdom is 40%, and the corruption of the lower-level tax officials is also included. It is a common phenomenon that self-cultivating farmers can only keep half of their harvest. It is even more difficult for tenant farmers who rent land.

However, Li Cha implemented 20% of the land tax in Hunter's territory, and completely abolished all exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes with false names.

This is naturally a good thing for the common people in the territory. In the past few years, the citizens of Hunter Territory have become richer, and almost every family has a few stones of grain.

However, the good governance of Hunter's Land is not a good thing for the territories of other families. It has little impact at a distance, but Willland, which is adjacent to the Hunter's family, has suffered a lot.

Originally, the poor people in the two territories were equally poor, so everyone had no idea, but suddenly one day, the poor people next door started to get richer, and their mentality was different.

As a result, many self-cultivated farmers in Weir Land simply gave up their land and went to Hunter Land to reclaim land, and even many sharecroppers in Weir's family began to escape. The Will family hated this very much.

"No, there is enough food."

One stone of grain is equivalent to about 125 catties of grain, and more than 10,000 stones of grain are enough for Ironwood City to use for more than a year. There is no need to break our own rules and collect grain again.

Of course, Li Cha is not some holy mother. He just tries to maintain the rule of collecting 20% ​​of land tax once a year. If it is really necessary, the tax should still be collected.

"Next, I plan to expand the Ironwood Forest Guards to 500 people, and Uncle Iger will cooperate with the distribution and placement of equipment."

"yes"

Iger didn't talk too much about asking why. Being loyal and doing his own thing well is his greatest advantage.

"It's nothing, I'll leave first."

"Um"

After Iger left, Li Cha met several people one after another to arrange some things, and finally a man dressed as a civilian came to Li Cha.

"Brother Kelun, how is Yusidu doing recently?"

"According to Master Li Cha's arrangement, most of the circuses performing in the Northland and some larger restaurants and taverns have arranged for our manpower, and we are also actively deploying spies for large caravans."

"Now we have more than 30 core personnel, and nearly 200 spies on the outside."

"Okay, thanks for your hard work, Brother Kelun, this is a hard job, not as beautiful as the city guard."

Although the name "Yusidu" is delicate, it places Li Cha's high hopes for this start-up intelligence department.

"It's like rain and silk, and it penetrates everywhere."

"It is my honor to play for the young master."

Ke Lun was an orphan in Hunterland, and was adopted by the Hunter family when Richard was still young.

The territory of the Hunter family has only been governed by Richard in recent years like an iron barrel. In the past, Hunter Territory was often infested with snow bandits. They attacked caravans and plundered villages. Coron was lost in the attack of snow bandits. parents.

As an orphan who was adopted from a young age, Ke Lun also received training from the Hunter family, and also had the experience of practicing martial arts with Richard.

Because of his introverted and careful personality, he was selected by Richard as the head of the intelligence department.

"Inadvertently disclosed the news of the discovery of iron ore at the bottom of the northern valley to the Will family."

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"yes"

Just execute, don't ask why, has always been the style of Li Cha's subordinates.

When Li Cha communicated with them in a negotiating tone, they could talk freely, but when Li Cha assigned tasks in a commanding tone, they would always have only one answer: "That's right."

The northern valley is in the ironwood forest north of Hunter Territory. Some hunters inadvertently discovered the existence of iron ore while chasing their prey.

After hearing the news, Richard did not rush to develop it. Instead, he chose to suppress the news and continue to buy iron materials at high prices. At that time, the Hunter family was not ready for a full-scale war with the Will family.

Now this news will be the last straw to irritate Will's family.

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After Ke Lun left, Li Cha in the conference hall was once again in a tangle.

"Would you like to place a human base camp?"

This reminder began to appear as soon as he arrived at Ironwood Fort, but there was no response after he left Ironwood Fort. After several experiments, Richard came to a conclusion:

Base camps must be placed on the basis of existing castles, and cannot be done in the wild like receiving troop rewards.

But from the bottom of his heart, Li Cha doesn't want this golden finger to be exposed to the world. The water in this world is not deep, and Li Cha's mentality is still not bottomed out. After so many years of tossing, he still hasn't been able to jump out of the large scope of the northern border.

The Hunter family is just a small aristocrat who has just made a fortune. In the eyes of the real big aristocrats, they are just a few lucky upstarts.

If it was just some soldiers who appeared suddenly, it would not be difficult to cover up as long as no one was allowed to see them appearing out of thin air.

But with such a conspicuous building directly released in this city, it is inevitable that someone will spread the news under the eyes of everyone, even if Li Cha is covering the sky with one hand in this Ironwood City.

But the temptation of a human castle is too great. Tier 4 soldiers like the Crusaders are at the level of knights. Wouldn't it be a sideways move if the knights and angels in the back make a few?

Li Cha raised and raised his hand, and finally put it down again.

"Wait a little longer, don't take risks, there will be better choices soon."

The last murmur seemed to be trying to convince himself.

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